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    "language": "en",
    "book": "hebrews",
    "chapter": 8
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 8,
    "bookSlug": "hebrews",
    "bookCode": "HEB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "HEB-8:1",
        "verseRef": "HEB.8.1",
        "text": "Now in the things which we are saying the chief point [is this]: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "HEB-8:2",
        "verseRef": "HEB.8.2",
        "text": "a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "HEB-8:3",
        "verseRef": "HEB.8.3",
        "text": "For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this [high priest] also have somewhat to offer."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "HEB-8:4",
        "verseRef": "HEB.8.4",
        "text": "Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law;"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "HEB-8:5",
        "verseRef": "HEB.8.5",
        "text": "who serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned [of God] when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "HEB-8:6",
        "verseRef": "HEB.8.6",
        "text": "But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "HEB-8:7",
        "verseRef": "HEB.8.7",
        "text": "For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "HEB-8:8",
        "verseRef": "HEB.8.8",
        "text": "For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and       with the house of Judah;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "HEB-8:9",
        "verseRef": "HEB.8.9",
        "text": "Not according to the covenant that I made with their       fathers In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out       of the land of Egypt; For they continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, saith the Lord."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "HEB-8:10",
        "verseRef": "HEB.8.10",
        "text": "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house       of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "HEB-8:11",
        "verseRef": "HEB.8.11",
        "text": "And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "HEB-8:12",
        "verseRef": "HEB.8.12",
        "text": "For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no more."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "HEB-8:13",
        "verseRef": "HEB.8.13",
        "text": "In that he saith, A new [covenant] he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away."
      }
    ]
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